Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, (Jun 24 1813-1887), US clergyman, abolitionist; He was famed as an orator of anti-slavery and woman suffrage; wrote Seven Lectures to Young Men, 1844.